Bruce Arena out as USMNT manager after failing to qualify for 2018 World Cup

Bruce Arena is out as head coach of the U.S. men’s national team, U.S. Soccer announced in a press release on Friday morning.

Arena leaves the post following the team’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. The USMNT lost on Tuesday at Trinidad and Tobago and finished a disastrous fifth in the hexagonal, with USA missing out on its first World Cup since 1986.